[103428] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: latency (was: RE: cooling door)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sun Mar 30 12:34:55 2008
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:29:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <98B7739FB65BF04F9B3233AB842EEC95023507B5@EXCHANGE.ctiusa.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Fred Reimer wrote:
> application to take advantage of the networks' capabilities. Mikael (seems
> to) complain that developers have to put latency inducing applications into
> the development environment. I'd say that those developers are some of the
> few who actually have a clue, and are doing the right thing.
I was definately not complaining, I brought it up as an example where
developers have clue and where they're doing the right thing.
I've too often been involved in customer complaints which ended up being
the fault of Microsoft SMB and the customers having the firm idea that it
must be a network problem since MS is a world standard and that can't be
changed. Even proposing to change TCP Window settings to get FTP transfers
quicker is met with the same sceptisism.
Even after describing to them about the propagation delay of light in
fiber and the physical limitations, they're still very suspicious about it
all.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
